Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 11.10.2013 10:28, schrieb Steven J. Long: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:35:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: wrong analogy and it goes down from here. Really. >>> Ohh, but they are inspired on YOUR analogy, so guess how wrong yours was. >> your trolling is weak. And since I never saw a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:37:53PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> initramfs is the new /, for varying values of new since most distros have >> been doing it that way for well over a decade. > > Only it's not, since you're responsible for kee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:16:50 +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: > > initramfs is the new /, for varying values of new since most distros > > have been doing it that way for well over a decade. > > Only it's not, since you're responsible for keeping it in sync with the > main system. No I'm not, the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:35:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> wrong analogy and it goes down from here. Really. > > Ohh, but they are inspired on YOUR analogy, so guess how wrong yours was. > > your trolling is weak. And since I never saw anything worth reading > posted by you, you ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:37:53PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:05:39 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > If *something1* at boot time requires access to *something2* at boot > > > time that isn't available then I would say that *something1* is broken > > > by design not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/10/2013 09:54, Steven J. Long wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:04:38AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 29/09/2013 23:41, Dale wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: >> that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. >>> And th

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Steven J. Long
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:04:38AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 29/09/2013 23:41, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 29/09/2013 18:33, Dale wrote: > that gnome is very hostile when it comes to KDE or choice is not news. > > And their dependency on systemd is just the usual ma